Glacier View, AK Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
7,060 ft 2,155 m5,580 ft 1,700 m4,830 ft 1,475 m3,350 ft 1,020 m1,860 ft 570 m1,120 ft 340 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Glacier View sits at about 4,650 ft (1,420 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
4,650 ft 1,420 m
most residents: 1,580–4,650 ft
Lowest
1,120 ft 340 m
on the west side
Highest
7,060 ft 2,155 m
on Mount Monarch
Average
3,440 ft 1,045 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Glacier View spans about 5,940 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 4,650 ft1,420 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on Mount Monarch | 7,060 ft2,155 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 1,120 ft340 m |
| Average of all land | 3,440 ft1,045 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
15 mi south to north through the middle of Glacier View.
Altitude Effects
What 4,650 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
203.4 °F95.2 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
84% of sea level
25.2 inHg (85.4 kPa): each breath holds 16% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
17.7% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+9% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States
- Population
- 375 2020 Census
- Land area
- 232.8 sq mi + 2.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.6 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 61.7982° N, 147.8336° W
- Time zone
- Alaska UTC−9 / −8
- Drains to
- Matanuska River → Gulf of Alaska
- ZIP codes 1
- 99674
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Glacier View4,650 ft
- Eureka Roadhouse3,040 ft
- Nelchina2,460 ft
- Lazy Mountain2,130 ft
- Chickaloon1,370 ft
- Buffalo Soapstone810 ft
- Sutton-Alpine710 ft
- Farm Loop440 ft
- Palmer270 ft
- Knik River150 ft
- Butte100 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alaska2nd highest of 355
- Towns in Matanuska-Susitna Boroughhighest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Sergeant Robinson10,520 ft
- Mount Wickersham7,380 ft
- Mount Monarch7,060 ft
- Sheep Mountain, Matanuska-Susitna Borough6,443 ft
- Kings Mountain5,750 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census CDP boundary (TIGER, Jan 1 2026). Much of Alaska's 3DEP comes from airborne radar (IfSAR), good to a few meters.
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Glacier View is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS and Watershed Boundary Dataset; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.